This is spot on. They were socialists who didn't like the Communists. Pro-Union, as long as you didn't try to leave the union, progressive by 1930s definitions (pro-eugenics, pro-abortion for undesirables, anti-abortion for the ruling ethnic group, living wage).
The Nazis and Italian Fascists were not "right" they are leftists.
I see an advertisement 5-10% of the time I watch TV. I record and skip, if I'm watching "live", I will pause it and create a skip buffer so I can fast forward.
They also love to see someone fail when they foul up.
Take Tiger Woods for example, if it'd not come out that he was a lying, cheating whoremonger, everyone would have continued to love him. If his car accident had been for medical reasons or if his wife had chased him around with a golf club because of something she did, all the Tiger Wood fans would have respected and supported him. But it turned out that someone who has been a major player in golf for 15 years was a jackass and his problems are his fault, people will continue to watch him fail and many will hope for continued failure.
Robert Downey Jr is the opposite side to that coin, he was successful and then had a drug problem that screwed his life up. No one felt good about that, but now that he is cleaned up and recovering folks like going to his films. "I'm glad he got his act together" is common when people talk about Robert Downey Jr. Now if people were like what you think they are, they'd be avoiding his movies and saying "Goddamned drug addict, why is he in movies still?"
I just don't see how the United States is a "Christian country". Sure the majority of houses of worship are Christian, but for example in my workplace of 30 people there is only one who defines themselves as "Christian". Other than the woman who is openly Jewish I have no idea what religion anyone else is.
Utah is definitely Mormon, the Southeast and Southcentral US are baptist, but out in the north central and west I don't get a "Christian" vibe from the United States.
People drink, people screw, people have kids without being married and there is no blowback.
Except Mister Swearsalot, the phones are traceable and the phones blow up into bits that can be traced.
So when Mister Terrorist blow up an IED with a cell phone bits are traced. When Mister Secret Service finds the pieces, they trace them and can compile a profile of who Mister Terrorist was/is and what they did. The memory in the phone may have logged the course Mister Terrorist took, they might get a number Mister Terrorist used to call the IED and they can track that.
Water - there are metal, stone, plastic casks that will remain water resistant over time. Or in a container in a salt mine, cave system, or geographically located where it won't flood. Like Jordan/Israel where the Dead Sea Scrolls were. Or...Black Hills of South Dakota, Wasatch range of Utah, Yucca Mountain, Missouri Karst.
EMP - Paper/parchment is remarkably resistant to EMP. I mean, a fractional orbital bombardment system with a multi-megaton nuke could go off over the US and all the paper would remain usable.
The media is who screwed Richard Jewell, if you read the article you linked to, the investigating US Attorney actually said he didn't have anything to do with it, but the media kept hammering on him.
He sued alot of people, but never went after the Feds, and everyone settled with him except the Atlanta Constitution Journal.
Federal isn't really PMITA, at least according to acquaintances who have been in State and Federal.
One guy who did a stint for sex crimes on an Indian Reservation (all Felonies on Reservations are dealt with in Federal Court) said his stop over in a State Prison was super scary, all lord of the flies, but once he was transferred to Federal Prison in Kansas it was a very safe and controlled environment.
A co-worker who had prison guarded at a Medium Security Federal Prison in Oregon said the same thing, no one is trying to make trouble generally and he never had any problems.
This guy will likely end up in a minimum security prison, probably on a military base or adjacent to one, as far as "prison" goes, it won't be that bad.
Then the UK shouldn't have signed the treaty with the United States.
And this guy shouldn't have done what he did.
I've been in the US legal system for being a dumbass when I was younger, I really got off light in regards to all the stupid things I'd done, I never avoided the punishment and I ended up better in the end.
Nicaragua wasn't a democratically elected government, they overthrew Samoza, likewise in El Salvador, there was a government in place and an insurgency rose up that the US assisted with.
So yea, I'm justifying US involvement in El Salvador and Nicaragua.
"So arranging a coup in another country doesn't count as an armed conflict for you because the military wasn't deployed ?"
No a coup like Iran in the 1950s or a Soviet backed one like Grenada or Nicaragua don't count as armed conflict because the US isn't deploying combat forces to the countries.
"Armed conflict. A prolonged period of sustained combat involving members of the U.S. Armed Forces against a foreign belligerent. The term connotes more than a military engagement of limited duration or for limited objectives, and involves a significant use of military and civilian forces."
"(b) Examples of military actions that are not armed conflicts are as follows: (1) The incursion into Lebanon in 1958, and the peacekeeping force there in 1983 and 1984. (2) The incursions into the Dominican Republic in 1965 and into Libya in 1986."
The US military was never deployed to Nicaragua or El Salvador nor were US special forces in combat in Nicaragua. Did the US fly planes into buildings in Managua? Nope.
As for one war, South Africa had troops in Rhodesia, Namibia, Mozambique not to mention the whole killing blacks in the slums things.
Once the civil wars were over in Nicaragua and El Salvador they transitioned right into democratic governments, a big part of that was also the Soviet Union failing so the money and weapons for the insurgencies went away.
And you mention Brazil, they've not had a conflict, I think you mean the CIA backed dictatorship of Chile
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But the source code for a euthanasia machine would work with this license right?
By killing them?
No, PETA isn't helping anyone other than their board of directors and egos
Vegetarian is universal for "bad hunter" or "wuss".
I was at the start of the Iditarod this year, those dogs live to do two things 1. Run 2. Pull a sled.
Serial arsonists are either mentally ill, or when done as an organization, terrorists.
They've not killed anyone yet.
Neither had Al Qadea for time after their creation and organization.
I don't like PETA and think folks who are convicted of eco-terror should be sent to Gitmo.
This is spot on. They were socialists who didn't like the Communists. Pro-Union, as long as you didn't try to leave the union, progressive by 1930s definitions (pro-eugenics, pro-abortion for undesirables, anti-abortion for the ruling ethnic group, living wage).
The Nazis and Italian Fascists were not "right" they are leftists.
I see an advertisement 5-10% of the time I watch TV. I record and skip, if I'm watching "live", I will pause it and create a skip buffer so I can fast forward.
Humans love success.
They also love to see someone fail when they foul up.
Take Tiger Woods for example, if it'd not come out that he was a lying, cheating whoremonger, everyone would have continued to love him. If his car accident had been for medical reasons or if his wife had chased him around with a golf club because of something she did, all the Tiger Wood fans would have respected and supported him. But it turned out that someone who has been a major player in golf for 15 years was a jackass and his problems are his fault, people will continue to watch him fail and many will hope for continued failure.
Robert Downey Jr is the opposite side to that coin, he was successful and then had a drug problem that screwed his life up. No one felt good about that, but now that he is cleaned up and recovering folks like going to his films. "I'm glad he got his act together" is common when people talk about Robert Downey Jr. Now if people were like what you think they are, they'd be avoiding his movies and saying "Goddamned drug addict, why is he in movies still?"
Except the fact is that cell phones are used as receivers all over the world in IEDs.
So yea, no terrorist building a bomb is as smart as you are.
I just don't see how the United States is a "Christian country". Sure the majority of houses of worship are Christian, but for example in my workplace of 30 people there is only one who defines themselves as "Christian". Other than the woman who is openly Jewish I have no idea what religion anyone else is.
Utah is definitely Mormon, the Southeast and Southcentral US are baptist, but out in the north central and west I don't get a "Christian" vibe from the United States.
People drink, people screw, people have kids without being married and there is no blowback.
Except Mister Swearsalot, the phones are traceable and the phones blow up into bits that can be traced.
So when Mister Terrorist blow up an IED with a cell phone bits are traced. When Mister Secret Service finds the pieces, they trace them and can compile a profile of who Mister Terrorist was/is and what they did. The memory in the phone may have logged the course Mister Terrorist took, they might get a number Mister Terrorist used to call the IED and they can track that.
Water - there are metal, stone, plastic casks that will remain water resistant over time. Or in a container in a salt mine, cave system, or geographically located where it won't flood. Like Jordan/Israel where the Dead Sea Scrolls were. Or...Black Hills of South Dakota, Wasatch range of Utah, Yucca Mountain, Missouri Karst.
EMP - Paper/parchment is remarkably resistant to EMP. I mean, a fractional orbital bombardment system with a multi-megaton nuke could go off over the US and all the paper would remain usable.
Multiple copies in storage in multiple locations.
Why not paper?
Documents on papyrus and parchment will last 2000+ years if properly stored.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dead_sea_scrolls
Because even if you blow the phone up, a surprising amount of the electronics and memory survive.
A conventional explosive doesn't turn everything into a fine powder.
The media is who screwed Richard Jewell, if you read the article you linked to, the investigating US Attorney actually said he didn't have anything to do with it, but the media kept hammering on him.
He sued alot of people, but never went after the Feds, and everyone settled with him except the Atlanta Constitution Journal.
"Here's an interesting case where government cops entered the wrong house (therefore an illegal warrantless search) to do a drug raid."
The United States Secret Service doesn't enforce those laws, so bringing that into this conversation is pointless.
And the article you linked to doesn't talk about Federal Law Enforcement, its local, so what the heck does that have to do with the USSS?
Federal isn't really PMITA, at least according to acquaintances who have been in State and Federal.
One guy who did a stint for sex crimes on an Indian Reservation (all Felonies on Reservations are dealt with in Federal Court) said his stop over in a State Prison was super scary, all lord of the flies, but once he was transferred to Federal Prison in Kansas it was a very safe and controlled environment.
A co-worker who had prison guarded at a Medium Security Federal Prison in Oregon said the same thing, no one is trying to make trouble generally and he never had any problems.
This guy will likely end up in a minimum security prison, probably on a military base or adjacent to one, as far as "prison" goes, it won't be that bad.
Then the UK shouldn't have signed the treaty with the United States.
And this guy shouldn't have done what he did.
I've been in the US legal system for being a dumbass when I was younger, I really got off light in regards to all the stupid things I'd done, I never avoided the punishment and I ended up better in the end.
Nicaragua wasn't a democratically elected government, they overthrew Samoza, likewise in El Salvador, there was a government in place and an insurgency rose up that the US assisted with.
So yea, I'm justifying US involvement in El Salvador and Nicaragua.
"So arranging a coup in another country doesn't count as an armed conflict for you because the military wasn't deployed ?"
No a coup like Iran in the 1950s or a Soviet backed one like Grenada or Nicaragua don't count as armed conflict because the US isn't deploying combat forces to the countries.
"Armed conflict. A prolonged period of sustained combat involving members of the U.S. Armed Forces against a foreign belligerent. The term connotes more than a military engagement of limited duration or for limited objectives, and involves a significant use of military and civilian forces."
"(b) Examples of military actions that are not armed conflicts are as follows:
(1) The incursion into Lebanon in 1958, and the peacekeeping force there in 1983 and 1984.
(2) The incursions into the Dominican Republic in 1965 and into Libya in 1986."
http://law.justia.com/us/cfr/title32/32-1.1.1.4.27.0.56.3.html
The US military was never deployed to Nicaragua or El Salvador nor were US special forces in combat in Nicaragua. Did the US fly planes into buildings in Managua? Nope.
As for one war, South Africa had troops in Rhodesia, Namibia, Mozambique not to mention the whole killing blacks in the slums things.
Once the civil wars were over in Nicaragua and El Salvador they transitioned right into democratic governments, a big part of that was also the Soviet Union failing so the money and weapons for the insurgencies went away.
And you mention Brazil, they've not had a conflict, I think you mean the CIA backed dictatorship of Chile
Well since I can't really link to the civics and government texts I learned from in 5th grade through undergrad, Wiki will have to do.
http://www.whitehouse.gov/our-government/executive-branch
http://www.whitehouse.gov/our-government/legislative-branch
http://www.whitehouse.gov/our-government/judicial-branch
There, that better?
Well, the Supreme Court of the United States are not legislators, so bringing them into a conversation is apples to oranges.
You do know how the three branches of State and Federal government work in the United States right?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_government_of_the_United_States#The_Legislative_Branch
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_government_of_the_United_States#Executive_branch
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_government_of_the_United_States#Judicial_branch
My neuralgia went away now that I can jam it with my nerve stim.
And I got neuralgia from nerve damage, not from gluten.
http://www.mayoclinic.com/health/gluten-free-diet/MY01140
And I wouldn't go gluten free, a gluten-free diet is wheat, barley and rice free
Those three had nothing to do with this decision, this was the SCOTUS. The two minority opinion were both conservative judges.
But a nice way to bring up those losers and insinuate they had something to do with it